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A British man suspected to have contracted the new coronavirus from his father has died in Birmingham. Meanwhile, a new study has been published, showing that the virus, which is similar to SARS, has mutated to efficiently attack human cells.
Originally posted by butcherguy
I think that if a weaponized virus is ever intentionally released, it will be something that will have a fairly long incubation/dormant period, so that it is spread widely before the dying even starts to take place.
All of a sudden, people start dying in droves and you can run, you can hide, break off all contact... but it won't do a bit of good, because you already have it!
"The world today has 6.8 billion people... that's headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent." - Bill Gates
Originally posted by ausername
Originally posted by butcherguy
I think that if a weaponized virus is ever intentionally released, it will be something that will have a fairly long incubation/dormant period, so that it is spread widely before the dying even starts to take place.
All of a sudden, people start dying in droves and you can run, you can hide, break off all contact... but it won't do a bit of good, because you already have it!
Bio-terrorists armed with a weaponized virus, one that is 100% fatal, airborne, and spread by contact, can live on untreated surfaces for hours, 2-3 days before an infected person can spread it to others, 7-10 days before the onset of the most severe symptoms, then hours or less to death... No vaccines, no effective treatments
100 suicide terrorists that would infect themselves with this, and then spread that infection among targeted populations could wipe out millions of us.... And no one may know, or suspect that it was an attack, and when they do, who is going to be blamed?
Some will be prepared, others unfortunately will not.